The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-11-25

PCoC0 uov0E' BtOOOs 4u0 cAt'n'
guishes the flames on the prairie by fight
ing fire with fire. but you can not, will
the fire Of your own disposition, put ou'
the fire Of q child's disposition.
Yet we may rush to the other extreme
and rule children by too great leniency
The surgeon is not unkind because, not.
withstanding the resistance Of his pa
tient, he goes straight ON with firm hand
and unfaltering heart to take of the gan
creme. Nor is the parent less affectionat,
and faithful because, Notwithstanding all
violent remonstrancss on the part Of the
child, he, with the firmest discipline, ad.
vances to the cutting of Of the evil in
clinations. The Bible says:
Chasten thy son while there Is hope and lei
not thy soul spare for his crying.
Childish rage unchecked will, after
awhile, become q hurricane. Childish
petulence will grow up into misanthropy.
Childish rebellion will develop into the
lawlessness Of riot and sedition. II you
would ruin the child, dance to his every
caprice and stuff him with confectionery.
Before you are aware of it that boy Of six
years will go down the street, a cigar in
his mouth, and ready on any corner with
his comrades to compare pugilistic attain
ments. The parent who allows the child
to grow up without ever having learned
the great duty of obedience and submits.
sion has prepared q cup Of burning gall
for his own lips and appalling destruction
for his descendant. Remember Eli and
his two sons, Hophni and Phinehas.
A second error prevalent in the training
Of children is laying out Of theory and
fOlInwinn ~ vrithny,t yinr IL Tn
varieties of disposition. In every family
you will find striking differences of tenn
permanent. This child is too timid, and
that too bold. and this too misery, and
that too .asteful; this too inactive,
and that too boisterous. Now, the
farmer, who should plant corn and wheat
and turnips in the same way, then put
them through one hopper and grind them
in the same mill, would not be SO much Of
a fool as the parents who would attempt
to discipline and educate all their children
in the same manner. 1t needs q skillful
hand to adjust these checks and balances.
The rigidity of government which is nee.
essary to hold in this i'm Detuous nature
would utterly crush that flexible DISPOSE
ton, while the gentle reproof that
would suffice for the latter would, when
used on the former, be like attempting to
hold a champing Bucephalus with reins of
gossamer.
God gives us, in the disposition of each
child, hint as to how we ought to train
him, and, a. God in the mental structure
of our children indicates what mode of
training is the best, he also indicates in
hedisposition their future occupation. Do
not write down that child as dull because
it may not now be as brilliant as your
other children or as those of your neigh.
Dor. Some of the mightiest men and
women of the centuries had a stupid
childhood. Thomas Aquinas was called
at school ''the dumb OK" but afterward
his sanctified genius and
was called ''the angel Of the schools" and
"the Eagle of Brittany" Kindness and
patience with child will conquer almost
any thing, and they are inspiring to look
at. John Wesley's kiss of a child on the
pulpit stairs turned Matthias Joyce from a
profigate into flaming evangel.
The third error prevalent in the train.
ing Of children is the one-sidsd develop
ment Of either the physical, intellectual
or moral nature at the expense of the
others. Those, for instance. greatly mis-
take who, while they are faithful in the
and moral culture of children,
forget the physical. The bright eyes
half quenched by night study, the cramped
chest that comes from too much bending
over school desks, the weak side resulting
from sedentariness of habit, pale cheeks
and the gaunt bodies of multitudes Of
children attest that physical development
does not always go along with intellectual
and moral.
How do you suppose all those treasures
Of knowledge the child gets will look in
shattered caskets? And how much will
you give for the wealthiest cargo when it
is put into leaky ship? How can that
bright, sharp blade of child's attain.
ments be welded without any handle?
What are brains worth without shoulders
to carry them? What is a child with
magnificent mind but an exhausted body?
Better that q young man of twenty one
go forth in the world without knowing A
FROM z if he have health of body and Ell.
erg3 to push his way through the world,
than at twenty -one to enter upon active
life, his head stuffed with, Socrates, and
and Bacon, and La Place. but
no physical force to sustain him i'm the
shock of earthly conflicts. From this i'm
finite blunder of parents how many have
come out i'm life with q genius that could
have piled Ossa upon PeliOn and mounted
upon them to scale the Heavens, and have
laid down painting with physical ex-
haustion before q mole-hill. They who
might have thrilled senates and mar
shaled armies and startled the world with
the shock Of their scientific batteries,
have passed their lives in picking up pre-
scriptions for indigestion. They owned
all the thunderbolts Of Jupiter, but could
not get out of their rocking chair to use
them.
Fire in the furhace heat, the house or
drives the steamer; but, uncontrolled,
go down in awful crash before
it, and in few hours half a city will be in
black ruin, walls aud towers and
churches and monuments. You must &C.
company the education of the intellect
with the education Of the heart, or you are
up within your child an energy
ter a wicked Ounce than a wicked philoso.
pher.
The fourth error often committed in the
Of children is the suppression of
childish sportfulness. The most triumph
ant death Of any child that I ever knew
was that Of Scoville Haynes McCOllum.
A few days before that he was at my
house in Syracuse, and he ran like deer
and his hallOo made the woods echo. You
could hear him coming q block of, so full
was he of romp and laughter and whistle.
Don't put religion ON your child as q
straight jacket. Parents after having
for a good many years been jostled about
in the rough world, often loose their viva
city, and are astonished to see how their
children can act SO thoughtlessly Of the
earnest world all about them. That is
cruel parent who quenches any Of the
light in q child's soul. Instead of arrest
ing its sportfulness, go forth and help
him trundle the hoop, and fly the kite,